How can anyone sit on this jury? Day 3 ended with 17 of the 18 jurors selected in the Lindsay Clancy trial. They will spend weeks hearing evidence about her mental health and the deaths of Cora, Dawso...

The Lindsay Clancy trial has begun. I was inside Plymouth Superior Court for the first day of jury selection. This case will turn on a narrow but crucial legal question: whether Clancy was criminally ...

President Trump promised a bombshell about the 2020 election. But listen closely to the language: could be manipulated, could be exploited, could be stolen. Was that evidence — or a warning presented ...

A Social Security number does not prove citizenship, a green card or permanent legal status. And entering the country unlawfully can be a federal crime without automatically eliminating someone’s abil...

Lindsey Graham's sister sworn in to finish his Senate term

Is this a better way for Mass. to hold its primaries?

A foreign government gave the United States a new presidential jet. Reporters questioned whether it had the same missile defenses as the older planes. Then four New York Times journalists were subpoen...

Fallout from Platner campaign: Takeaways and possible replacements

Where is Senator Mitch McConnell? That question is now being asked by both a Democratic governor and a Republican congressman. McConnell is entitled to medical privacy. But voters are also entitled to...

Lawsuit seeks damages from social media companies

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One year after Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” the health coverage cuts are starting to land. First came the tax cuts. Now come the health coverage cuts. Nearly half a million people in New Yor...

Sue O'Connell on Instagram: "The Supreme Court ended its term with major rulings on birthright citizenship, transgender athletes, and campaign finance. Birthright citizenship survives. States may ban ...

Takeaways from Monday's Supreme Court decisions

The Supreme Court gave Trump a major win on presidential power — but stopped him at the Federal Reserve. And on mail ballots, the Court said states can still count ballots mailed on time if state law ...

Who will take care of grandma when the people doing the work are forced out? The Supreme Court just cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Haitian TPS — and this is not abstract. It is ho...

250 years in, here's how Americans are feeling about the U.S.

The midterms are not background noise. Every House seat is on the ballot. About a third of the Senate is, too. Whether you want to defend what’s happening or defeat it, the answer is the same: pick a...

Women were citizens. So why couldn’t they vote?

Let’s Play A Game! Pardon or Punish? Same government. Different rules. Pardon or punish? The answer depends less on the conduct than on who the conduct serves. #Trump #Jan6 #ICE #Pardons #Politics

What to know about peace talks with Iran

Terrorism-prevention money became the lever in a new fight over voting. According to CNN, states could be told to change election rules or risk losing 20% of homeland-security grant money. The policy ...

Sue Takes Issue, Best of 2025

President Trump sold the Iran war as a way to weaken Iran, stop its nuclear program, crush its missile threat, and pressure the regime. But the actual deal tells a different story: oil exports reopen,...

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People keep asking why I talk about Trump so much. Here’s the answer. #PoliticsTok #TrumpNews #MediaLiteracy #Accountability #Journalism

Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Monday, June 15, 2026

While the fight on the lawn grabbed the headlines — what about the babies? You know, the thousands of children — including babies and toddlers being held by ICE. The numbers are hard to look at. And t...

👊🏛️💸 💰 👀 A cage fight on the White House lawn is the spectacle. The real undercard is the money. Private company. Federal property. Trump-branded coins. UFC stock. Paramount merger. So yes, enjoy the ...

Breaking News: President Trump says inflation will come down “when the war is over.” But the U.S. and Iran are still trading attacks, oil routes are under military protection, and senators are alread...

Sue O'Connell on Instagram: "The Karen Read criminal trial is over but the legal fight is not. Four civil lawsuits are now active, and the battle over what happened in Canton has moved into a new cour...

Boston Pride for the People Parade is set to step off, with history, protest in mind

Can a police officer’s private texts be protected speech, even when those texts reveal racism, antisemitism, and bias about the person he was investigating? Karen Read’s new lawsuit about Michael Proc...

Karen Read’s new civil lawsuit raises a bigger question than the texts themselves: How does someone with alleged years of racist, antisemitic, misogynistic, anti-Asian and homophobic messages end up w...

Karen Read’s new lawsuit is not just about ugly texts. It is about who gets a badge, who gets power, who gets trusted to investigate the rest of us — and what happens when the warning signs were alleg...

🚨Before Ebola gets on a plane ✈️. 🌪️ Before a tornado hits your town. 🦠Before measles reaches your kid’s school. Somebody is supposed to see the warning signs. That’s the part of government most peopl...

I’m 64. I came out in 1985, in the early years of the AIDS crisis — before marriage equality, before federal workplace protections, before rainbow logos in stores, before being out was treated as norm...

Analysis: The history of ‘All men are born free and equal' and the Constitution

🚨Breaking Epstein Files News Pam Bondi testified about the Epstein files admitted there were “redaction errors” in the Epstein files. Survivors’ information got exposed. But when asked about Preside...

Analysis: Why ‘loyal Republican soldier' Sen. Cornyn lost Texas runoff

Mass. millionaire's tax has generated over $3B in revenue

USCIS just rewrote how you apply for a green card from inside the U.S. and immigration lawyers say it could lock thousands of people out of the country they already legally live in. Are you applying ...

Pope Leo XIV just released an encyclical, a formal papal letter meant to teach and guide the Church on a major moral issue. It’s called Magnifica Humanitas. In English, On Safeguarding the Human Perso...

Tulsi Gabbard is resigning as Director of National Intelligence after her husband was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. The reason is personal. The fallout is national. The DNI oversees Ameri...

You saw "Ebola" and "flights rerouted to D.C." in the same headline. Before you panic — here's what that actually means. No fear-mongering. Just the facts: what's happening, why sitting near someone o...

45% of registered voters are independent, not Republican or Democrats…so why do those two parties control who gets on the primary ballot, so that by the time most voters show up in November, we wonder...